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Zimbabwe to import 1 million tonnes of maize
Zimbabwe is projected to import approximately 1 million tonnes of maize during the 2025/26 agricultural season, according to a new report by the Foreign Agricultural Service of the U.S. Department of ...Published: 18 Jun 2025 at 18:08hrs | 286 | by Staff reporter
SA in record-high grain exports to Zimbabwe
The Port of Durban is currently receiving a shipment of imported white maize, marking the first import of the grain since March 2017 when South Africa was grappling with a severe drought.The A...Published: 15 Jan 2025 at 06:44hrs | 660 | by Staff reporter
GMB maize stocks fall
MAIZE stocks have declined in the nation's reserves at Grain Marketing Board (GMB) depots dotted across the country, and this may worsen food insecurity situation at a time when inflation and currency...Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 09:08hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Eat to live, not live to eat
None communicable diseases are on the rise and claiming more lives than wars. The terrible and horrible 'siamese' twins, diabetes and hypertension are the ring leaders of these phantom hit squads. How...Published: 07 Sep 2023 at 22:35hrs | 1 | by Thomas Tondo Murisa
Zimbabwe embassy gets land from Senegal for production of white maize
THE Zimbabwean Embassy in Senegal has been availed with more land to spearhead the production of white maize in a diplomatic show of food security initiatives that the continent is putting in place....Published: 29 Jan 2023 at 07:50hrs | 128 | by Staff Reporter
Malawi opposition seeks to block US$22m sale of maize to Zimbabwe
LEADER of the opposition in Malawi's Parliament Kondwani Nankumwa has written to that country's president, Lazarus Chakwera, urging him to intervene and stop the sale of maize to neighbouring Zimbabwe...Published: 10 Jun 2022 at 08:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe takes measures to ensure food security
THE first consignment of 400 000 tonnes of white maize to be imported from Malawi following Cabinet's decision allowing private players to import grain to plug the gap in the supply of the staple is e...Published: 07 Jun 2022 at 09:41hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe to get Malawi maize this monthend
Zimbabwe will this monthend take delivery of its first consignment of maize imported from Malawi as private players seek to plug the gap in the supply of the staple, the Grain Millers' Association of ...Published: 05 Jun 2022 at 09:17hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
GMAZ secures maize from Malawi and Zambia
Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) has secured 400 000 metric tonnes of white maize from Malawi and Zambia.Preparations for t...Published: 24 May 2022 at 22:57hrs | 12 | by Simbarashe Sithole
High mealie meal prices baffle consumers
THE RECENT increase in mealie meal prices by 50% has irked consumers across Zimbabwe who are saying it has become unaffordable due to poor incomes they are earning while most of them are not formally ...Published: 27 Apr 2022 at 08:07hrs | 2 | by Stephen Jakes
Mealie-meal, wheat prices jump
THE Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) has reviewed upwards prices of mealie-meal and flour, following the increase of maize and wheat prices.The prices of mealie-meal and flour rece...Published: 17 Apr 2022 at 09:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mealie meal price rockets; 10kg roller meal packet hits US$11
CONSUMERS have been dealt a hard blow after the Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe's (GMAZ) increase the retail price of mealie meal by 50% Wednesday evening.Millers held an emergency meeti...Published: 13 Apr 2022 at 22:10hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe has adequate wheat supplies for festive season'
THE Grain Millers Association of Zimbabwe (GMAZ) says millers have managed to secure adequate wheat and maize supplies as demand is anticipated to grow during the coming Festive Season."The Gr...Published: 04 Dec 2021 at 07:14hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Stockfeeds shortage hits the market
A SHORTAGE of stockfeeds has hit the market, with poultry farmers going from one supplier to another in search of the major input for their business.This comes at a time the country is faced with ...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 07:59hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Bitter first anniversary for Mugabe
DESPONDENT and waiting in a long queue for daily food handouts from a well-wisher, Milka Mandimutsa gets nostalgic about Zimbabwe's autocratic and longtime ex-leader Robert Mugabe, who died a year ago...Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 06:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Poor rains, fall armyworm leaves Southern Africa vulnerable
Harare - Prolonged dry spells, erratic rainfall, high temperatures and the presence of the voracious fall armyworm have significantly dampened Southern Africa's current agricultural season's cereal pr...Published: 09 Feb 2018 at 10:59hrs | 2 | by Agencies
Zimbabwe bans grain imports
Zimbabwe has banned grain imports to protect local farmers after producing enough to meet domestic demand, the deputy minister of agriculture has said, just a year after a devastating drought left mor...Published: 13 Jun 2017 at 15:47hrs | | by BBC
Stockfeed demand goes down
THE decline in the prices of cattle has affected the demand for stockfeed as farmers are now failing to raise adequate money to purchase the commodity, an official has said.In an interview las...Published: 11 Sep 2016 at 12:59hrs | 1 | by Dickson Mangena
Gokwe hit hard by the drought
EVEN in the best of times, life in Nemangwe Village, in Gokwe South, Midlands Province, is desolate and harsh.The area has light sandy soils that make agricultural activity difficult. They dra...Published: 31 Mar 2016 at 00:40hrs | 1 | by Patrick Chitumba
GMB to import 230 000t of maize from Zambia
The food crisis in the country is expected to ease, with the Grain Marketing Board set to urgently import at least 230 000 tonnes of maize from Zambia. The State Procurement Board (SPB) has since appr...Published: 11 Jan 2016 at 05:28hrs | | by Lloyd Gumbo
Millers slash white maize price by over 50%
LOCAL grain millers have reportedly slashed the purchase price of white maize by over 50% to as low as $140 per metric tonne.This follows the high influx ...Published: 07 May 2015 at 22:55hrs | | by Staff Reporter
SA to suspend maize exports to Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe could be forced to source its maize imports elsewhere after South African producers have hinted on possible suspension of exports in case of a deficit.Grain SA chief executive Jannie ...Published: 05 Mar 2015 at 15:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Maize meal 12% price hike looms
ZIMBABWE'S millers have predicted a 12% hike in the price of maize meal after the government arbitrarily re-instated the Grain Marketing Board's (GMB) monopoly on grain procurement and banned private ...Published: 10 Feb 2014 at 07:03hrs | | by Business reporter
Zimbabwe to maintain ban on GMO imports
HARARE - The top Zimbabwean agricultural official on Saturday said the government will maintain its ban on imports of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), and will not allow GMO crop seeds into the ...Published: 26 Feb 2012 at 14:03hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zambia's Exports of maize to Zimbabwe increase
ZAMBIA has stepped up maize exports to Zimbabwe, currently standing at 170,000 metric tonnes, states the Zambian FRA.Zambia's Food Reserve Agency assistant public relat...Published: 25 Mar 2011 at 12:35hrs | | by Byo24News
The country Zimbabwe could yet become
Eddie Cross on what needs to be done to realise its potentialNo one disputes the fact that we have huge potential. The only question is how do we unlock that potential and exploit it for the b...Published: 25 Jan 2011 at 03:35hrs | 1 | by Eddie Cross
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